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Prometheus Bedeviled: Science and the Contradictions of Contemporary Culture

5 reviews
Norman Levitt

Rutgers University Press, 1999

A brilliant defense of the scientific worldview
Norman Levitt's name will be familiar to anyone following the so-called "Science Wars." It was, after all, his (and coauthor Paul Gross') earlier book, "Higher Superstition," that sparked the most recent slew of battles in this war, and inspired Alan Sokal to write his notorious hoax article for Social Text. For those who appreciated Sokal's own recent book, "Fashionable Nonsense," but found ...

Algebraic and Geometric Topology: Proceedings of a Conference held at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, USA, ...

Springer, 1985

Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and Its Quarrels with Science

27 reviews
Paul R. Gross, Norman Levitt

The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997

Still relevant after all these years...
Academic fads have a startlingly brief lifespan: Last year's new thing is supplanted by this year's new thing, which promises to transgress all previous boundaries and explode the oppressive partiarchal paradigms that are crushing the unprivileged. Everything that lies under the vague umbrella of "postmodernism" is one of those this-year's-new-things. But most of those academic fads didn't ...

Theodicy for atheists: the problem of evil in a Darwinian world.(Darwin Loves You: Natural Selection and the ...
Norman Levitt

Thomson Gale, 2007

This digital document is an article from Skeptic (Altadena, CA), published by Thomson Gale on September 22, 2007. The length of the article is 3430 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Citation Details Title: Theodicy for atheists: the problem of evil ...

Two reviews of Richard Dawkins' The God Delusion.(Book review): An article from: Skeptic (Altadena, CA)
Norman Levitt, Deepak Chopra

Thomson Gale, 2007

This digital document is an article from Skeptic (Altadena, CA), published by Thomson Gale on June 22, 2007. The length of the article is 5824 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Citation Details Title: Two reviews of Richard Dawkins' The God ...

The Flight from Science and Reason (Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences)

8 reviews

New York Academy of Sciences, 1997

The style of this book
To the critics of this book's style rather than content: This is a collection of conference proceedings. This means that the articles are basically transcribed lectures. The slightly awkward style of writing stems from the origins of the articles as speech, not text. As for the content: superb.

Pious fantasies.(Book Review): An article from: Skeptic (Altadena, CA)
Norman Levitt

Skeptics Society & Skeptic Magazine, 2003

This digital document is an article from Skeptic (Altadena, CA), published by Skeptics Society & Skeptic Magazine on June 22, 2003. The length of the article is 4345 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Citation Details Title: Pious fantasies.(Book ...

CONFESSIONS OF A DISAGREEABLE MAN.: An article from: Skeptic (Altadena, CA)
Norman Levitt

Skeptics Society & Skeptic Magazine, 2000

This digital document is an article from Skeptic (Altadena, CA), published by Skeptics Society & Skeptic Magazine on June 22, 2000. The length of the article is 4329 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Citation Details Title: CONFESSIONS OF A ...

Theological Emergency! Complexity, Emergence, and Design in Science and Theology.(From Complexity to Life: On ...
Norman Levitt

Skeptics Society & Skeptic Magazine, 2004

This digital document is an article from Skeptic (Altadena, CA), published by Skeptics Society & Skeptic Magazine on January 1, 2004. The length of the article is 4612 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Citation Details Title: Theological Emergency! ...